{"id":1540,"date":"2005-05-16T19:03:43","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T23:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2005-05-16T19:03:43","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T23:03:43","slug":"the-formula-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"The formula for everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some wonderful properties have been discovered in the eye of a small and poisonous jellyfish, and you want <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/jellyfish_eyes\/\">the straight version,<\/a> PZ Myers has it.<\/p>\n\n<p>But what struck me first was a description of the jellyfish from the lead researcher, in the <em>New Scientist:<\/em> <span class=\"loony\">&#8220;These are fantastic creatures with 24 eyes, four parallel brains and 60 arseholes&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>It seemed to me that we were here on the brink of a much greater discovery. there are so many things that fit that description &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>newsdesks;<\/li>\n<li>yahoo groups;<\/li>\n<li>successful open source projects (the failures have fewer brains).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"loony\">&lt;mailscience&gt;<br \/><br \/>\nis this a golden ratio, which will be replicated across all social structures?<br \/><br \/>\n&lt;\/mailscience&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>Further example welcome.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some wonderful properties have been discovered in the eye of a small and poisonous jellyfish, and you want the straight version, PZ Myers has it. But what struck me first was a description of the jellyfish from the lead researcher, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}